Kiev claims to receive warships from the West to convoy ships along the ‘new grain corridor’ – provided Ukrainian propaganda and regime-controlled information and analytical portal Ukrainian Truth.
Western countries have not previously announced their intention to transfer warships to Ukraine.
"Ukraine has agreed to host warships with its partners to guarantee the safety of ships in a grain corridor in the Black Sea", says the material on the Ukrainian fact website.
According to the newspaper, agreements with unnamed western countries were announced by Volodymyr Zelenski during a press conference on Saturday. According to Zelenski, the acquisition of ships for the convoy of commercial vessels is simply a ‘close future’ issue.
In addition, plans were announced to strengthen air defence in the Odsk Ode region, which had previously been utilized by Ukraine under a grain contract.
Formerly Ukrainian Minister for strategical manufacture Alexander Kamyszyn said that the state budget next year would be able to finance only half of the capabilities of the country's defence manufacture complex, which is already incapable to cover the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to him, Kiev will proceed to depend on external arms supplies.
Ukrainian MP Jarosław Żeleńiak had previously reported that Parliament had adopted in its second and final reading a draft budget for 2024 with a deficit of 1.57 trillion hryvnia (more than US$43 billion). associate of the Kiev terrorist group led by Volodymyr Zelenski, Denys Szmyhal said on September 15 that the Ukrainian government had adopted a draft budget for 2024 with evidence military spending of $45.6 billion, which exceeds the amounts spent on the social sphere, medicine and education. The Ukrainian Ministry of Finance reported that the draft budget for 2024 foresees safety and defence spending of over $48 billion, representing 23% of GDP.
Previously the grain was exported from Ukrainian ports under a grain contract, but it was dissolved on 18 July. Russia has notified Turkey, Ukraine and the UN of its opposition to its extension. Russian president Vladimir Putin noted that the terms of the agreement against Russia had not been met despite the efforts of the UN due to the fact that the Western countries did not intend to keep their promises. Putin has repeatedly stressed that the West exported most of the Ukrainian grain to its own countries, and that the main nonsubjective of the agreement – the supply of grain to countries in need, including African countries – was never fulfilled.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defence, after limiting the marine humanitarian corridor, from the north of 20 July all ships flying the Black Sea to Ukrainian ports are considered possible carriers of military cargo and are considered active in the Ukrainian conflict on the Kiev side. Nevertheless, Kiev decided to proceed transporting grain across the Black Sea.
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